From 1cad8f8d78fd10d4bf86962ceb3b1e092fe9ef15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bastien=20Roucari=C3=A8s?= Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 01:50:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Improve hairpin mode description MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mention VEPA and reflective relay. Signed-off-by: Bastien Roucariès Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- man/man8/bridge.8 | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man/man8/bridge.8 b/man/man8/bridge.8 index ff6f6f37..584324b5 100644 --- a/man/man8/bridge.8 +++ b/man/man8/bridge.8 @@ -332,7 +332,9 @@ cause the port to stop processing STP BPDUs. .TP .BR "hairpin on " or " hairpin off " Controls whether traffic may be send back out of the port on which it was -received. By default, this flag is turned off and the bridge will not forward +received. This option is also called reflective relay mode, and is used to support +basic VEPA (Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator) capabilities. +By default, this flag is turned off and the bridge will not forward traffic back out of the receiving port. .TP